Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-09-17

verify with our own eyes, threw y into
considerable i'utter Tint tho natives d this
unknown lake should understand the art Of
sailing seemed iosuggest that they possessed
somo degree Of civilization. Ina rev mere
minutes II became evident that lie occupant
or occupants Of the advancing boat had mads
US out For moment or two she hung In
the wind as though In Doubt, and then came
lacking toward US with great swiftness In
ten moro minutes abe WINS within q hundred
yards, and We saw that she was q neat little
boat-not canoe dugout," but built moro
or less In European fashion with plnnks, and
carrying a singularly large sail for her size.
But our attention was soon diverted from the
boat to her crew, which consisted Of man
and woman nearly ns white as ourselves.
We stared at each other in nmnzemcnt,
thinking that We must be mistaken; but no,
there was 10 doubt about It They wers not
fair, but the two people in the boat wero de-
cidedly OF whito as distinguished from
black race-as white, for instance. rs Span
iards or Italians 1t was patent face So
It was true, after oil; and, mysteFiously led
by a Power beyond our own, We had discov
cred this wonderful people. could have
shouted for joy when / Thought Of the glory
and the wonder Of the thing; and as Il was,
we all shook hands and Congratulated each
other on the unexpected Success Of our Wild
search. All my life had heard rumors OF a
white race that existed in the highlands OF
the interior Of this vast continent. and longeH
to put them TO tho proof, and now fefv snR
II with mylown eyes and was dumfonnded.
Truly, as Sir Henry said, the old Roman WIS
right when he wrote: "Ex Africa semper
2liquid iiovi which he tells me means that
put of Africa there always comes souc new
thing co tNt R li
The manin the boat was Of a good but no.
particularly finn physique, and had straight,
black hair, regular aquilino features, and or
Intelligent face. He was dressed in a brown
cloth garment, something like flannel shirt
without the sleeves, and in an un.nistakabe
kilt OF the samo material The legs and feet
were bare Round the right arm and left leg
he wore thick rings Of yellow metal that
judged to be OF gold The woman had q
sweet face, wild and shy, with large eyes and
curling brown hair. Her dress was made of
the Same material as the mans, md consisted,
rs we afterwards discovered, first OF q linen
! under garment that hung down to herlsyee,
and then of a single long strip Of cloth, about
four feet wide by fifteen long. which was
wound round tie body in graceful folds and
finally flung over the left shouldss$ that the
end, which was eyed blue or purple or some
other color, according to The scc'al standing
| Of the wearer, hung down in front. The right
| arm and breast being. however, left quite
bare. A more becoming dress, especially
| when, MS in the present case, the wealer wns
young and pretty, l. quite impossible to con-
ceive Good, who has an eye for such things,
was greatly struck with it, and SO indeed was
|. 1t was so simple and yet SO effective.
| Meanwhile, II we had been astonishcd at
the appearance Of the man and woman, II
was clear that they were far more astonished
at u.s. As for the man, hc appeared to be
overcome with fear and wonder, and for d
while lowered round our canoe, but would
not approach At last, however, lie came
within hailing distance, and called to US In a
language that sounded soft and pleasing
enough but Of which we coui,l not understand
one word. so we hailed back in English,
French, Latin, Greek, German, Zulu, Dutch.
Sisutu, Kukuana, and few other native
dialects that ] am acquainted with, but our
i visitor did not understand any of these
| tongues; indeed, they appeared to bcwilaels
him As for the lady, she was busiiy emf
ployed I'm taking stock OF us, AMI Go Il was
returning the compliment by staring at her
hard through bis cyeglass, q proceeding that
she seemed rather to ENJOY than otherwise
At length the man, being unable to make
anything out OF us, suddenly headed bis besS
round and began to head Of for the Shore
his little boat skirn,ling away before the
wind like swallow. As she passed across
our bows, tho man turned to attend to the
large sail, and Good promptly took the oppor-
turity to kiss his hand to the young lady. l.
WIS Mortified at this proceeding both on
| general grounds and beca.isa feared that
Sac might take ofense, but to my delight she
lid not, for, first giancins round and seeing
chat her husband, or brother, or whoever IL
4 was, was @ gagged, she promptly kissed hers
hack.
i @Ah" said I, 1T seems that we have at
last found language that the people of this
country urders' sand.
4In which case,a said Sir Henry aGood
viii prove on invaluable int rpreter.n
frowned, for DO not approve Of Goods
fiivolties, and he knows it, and turned tho
conversation to more serious subjects. at is
very clear TO me-" said, Htlat the mas will
be back before long with host OF his fellows,
80 that We had best make up our minds as to
how we are going to receive them y
1 "The question is, how viii they receive nsav
said Sir Henry
] As for Good, ho made no remark, but be,
gan to extract q small squire tin case That
bad accompanied us III all our wnndcrinss
from under a pile Of baggage, Now, we lad
often demonstrated with Good about this tin.
case, inasinuci as it had been an awkward
thing to carry, aid he had never given any
very explicit account as to its contents; but
he had insisted ON keeping it, saying niysteri-
oiisly that it might come in very useful one
day. ~! Inn 70 Asaei 4l5iasz
VI What on earth are you going to do, Good.s
asked Sir Henry. 1iss8 i'a up 8 sep
'Do2-wby dress, of COURSE! You don't
j expect me to appear in new country IN
these things do YOUR and lie pointed to his
soiled and worn garments, which were, how
ever, like all Goods things, very tidy, and
with every tear neatly mended.
] We said no more, but watched his proceed
ings with breathless interest. His first step
was to get Aiphonse, who was thoroughly
competent in such matters, to trim his hair
and beard in the most approved fashion. |
think Tint II he had had some hot water and
a cake OF soap at hand he would have shaved